Digging up old mines while wandering a minefield, burning an old flamethrower in a fire pit, and climbing a rotted 80 year old ladder are three of the most obvious “don’t do this” things I’ve ever heard of, yet, here we are. Thank you for doing it, so I don’t have to.
Awsome! What a place thanks for keeping the past alive!! I bet there is more places like this out there. Thank you for sharing and be careful✋👍 from new york
Please do not go into the cave. It is dangerous for many reasons. Your safety is more important than anything else. Thank you for sharing your experiences and world with us.
The “bouncing Betty’s” used black powder as a propellant - any water ingress and they become inert other than the fuse. That was because the Germans ran out of the materials to make more advanced explosives at the end of WW2.
@@allangibson2408 Do you want to try reading the manufacturers date or bet on all the contents being wetted😬😉 The battle fields of the First ww are still littered with devices that can and do go off....and as one writer has also stated even US civil war mines have exploded 😬
@@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665 The Betty’s were not particularly water proof (even when new) as a function of their design. Modern chemical explosives are generally far more water resistant. A WW2 Teller mine would be seriously scary (particularly as they included anti disturbance fuse provisions as standard).
Amazing to see an 80 year old german flamethrower still breathing fire ! Thank you for doing all this excavation. Those Sprengminen are still dangerous though, please be careful.
There have been instances of American Civil War mortars blowing up and injuring, &killing people in recent history. So yes,these mines could have some potential, if conditions are met.
@@necosimpson6225 Legacy mines and munitions are one of the greatest threats to life and limb over huge areas of the world, not just on land either .... these tend to stay put mostly sea mines are complete wild cards when they break loose. There is a ww2 munitions ship sunk just outside London...in the industrial zone .... Its so dangerous they have never attempted to remove the cargo or nutralize it.
Cool video. It must be an awesome feeling finding those places just as they left them. What do you call that off road vehicle? That looks like a lot of fun to drive.
Thank you for allowing us to tag along on your dig. Great to see history in and on the ground! Russia did most of the fighting against the Germans. Great to see the evidence of your sacrifices. Well done
Exactly Darren. You just need to look at a map, see how huge Russia - back then - and Europe. Russian front absorbed well over half the german army, and war effort. Not down playing allied war effort, but, yes, Darren, if it wasn't for the Russians...the war would have dragged on. Just so terrible that Stalin, near doubled the entire casualties of ww2 - on his own people.
Please tell me what those machines are that you drive? Look like a open log skidder or off road truck that articulates in the middle and from side to side. Ultimate 4wd. They look bought or maybe just made well at home either way what's the name of them? Thank you from Pennsylvania. USA
German steel and products made then was the best in the world. They was really the best u can get. Now it's China, not the best but no matter what u buy flip it over and says Made in China. If China said FU USA wed be so very fucked so very bad. Over 75 percent of all we use comes from china. Scary and sad. I was born in 80 and I remember helping dad work on things around the house and buying wear items and fixing it, not throwing it out and buying new. Miss those days. Shit lasted then. I have a blender, mixer and a microwave, all ugly colors, very heavy but works almost 40 years. Made in USA
Фугасный огнемет Abwehr Flammenwerfer 42 Одноразовый, оборонительный огнемет Abwehr Flammenwerfer 42 (A.Fm.W. 42) был разработан на базе советского фугасного огнемета ФОГ-1. Для применения, он зарывался в землю, на поверхности оставалась замаскированная труба форсунки. Устройство срабатывало либо от дистанционного управления, либо от контакта с растяжкой. Всего было выпущено 50 тысяч единиц. ТТХ огнемета: объем огнесмеси - 29 л; зона поражения - полоса длиной 30 м, шириной 15 м; максимальная продолжительность работы - 3 с.
Luckily a lot of those mines doesn't have the detonator so the explosives are open to the elements. The explosives (mainly TNT) can 'sweat' when it's old and then it's very unstable. But we got natures finest bomb disposal unit available, ants. Ants like the sweet taste of most explosives, so they litteraly eat the explosives and make a bomb 'safe'. Although the mine at 11:15 i wouldn't touch with a 5m long stick behind a concrete wall. It got an intact fuse, no holes for ants and looks like it got some weight when he lifts it, meaning there's most likely still explosives inside.
I love watching these guys work the artifacts. No fear, just handling the situation. Taking care of what they can to make it safe. Great history on display...
Amazing - and Beautiful. Perhaps some of the incomplete mines missing trigger mechanisms found unburied were not dug up by someone else. Perhaps those are surplus the Germans had planned to put in the minefield but did not.
i love your videos! =) very strange that no one has been there for such long time! and i wonder what is this beautiful offroaders you guys drive! =) i would love to build this myself!
Those S-mines are full of jagged little chunks of metal. I can't believe he's just picking them up after they had the TRIGGER installed, that works on TRIP WIRES.
How come those ball blastin Smines are so safe to handle - Now ? The 3 pronged items were so delicate when first buried, really lethal... I'm surprised you find them apparently inert today....
Life expectancy buried in the ground to preform as manufactured is 3 months, these mine were tested by the Allies in North Africa, as mentioned by PVD all primer/ powder black powder based is prone to moisture. The only dangerous content is the three dets under the three screws at the top, which should just drop out when unscrewed.
in my head id imagined an scp situation where with every burst of light from that frying flamethrower, you see more and more outlines of ghostly soldiers both german and russian, standing between the trees in the darkness, getting slightly closer and growning in numbers with each new puff of light.
Fantastic find guys. Do you think any of those land mines are still explosive , have you try to detonate any of them ? Thank you again. Job well done. Looking forward to new videos.
Fuck That...yes they are old..yes they are rusty. yes 99.999% they are inert. but it only takes one to fuck your day up. having said that, this man has balls of steel and bouncing betties would probably just bounce of him
That machine you were riding was like a sherp a vehicle here in the united states that's very expensive an almost unstoppable goes on water mud anything it was cool to see that was the old time version of the sherp
Sad to see the flamethrowing getting burnt after so many years of beeing preserved. You should have just shoot some flames with the pump for fun and send it to a museam after. Also it was dangerous because it could have exploded.
Digging up old mines while wandering a minefield, burning an old flamethrower in a fire pit, and climbing a rotted 80 year old ladder are three of the most obvious “don’t do this” things I’ve ever heard of, yet, here we are. Thank you for doing it, so I don’t have to.
It's incredible that a german jumping mine that have sat in the ground for atleast 77 years got less rust than my Chinese motorcycle from 2016 :D
keyword here is chinese. its junk
Bouncing Betty’s
Danke für's zeigen und hochladen ! Super Informationen zu diesen stationären Flammenwerfern - live leer gebrannt habe ich sie nie gesehen !
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Crazy how well all the galvanized barbed wire in comparison to non galvanized metals held up
Awsome! What a place thanks for keeping the past alive!! I bet there is more places like this out there. Thank you for sharing and be careful✋👍 from new york
It’s quite mind boggling the amount of resources put into being able to kill people. Imagine all that used for good instead!
Incredible find and high dangerous place! well done, from Italy.
Awesome video 😉👍 keep making awesome WW2 history videos 🔥💯🔥
Please do not go into the cave. It is dangerous for many reasons. Your safety is more important than anything else. Thank you for sharing your experiences and world with us.
I know you are all very careful and the mines are old, but "Bouncing Betties", S-mines, are scary dangerous. Be safe.
The “bouncing Betty’s” used black powder as a propellant - any water ingress and they become inert other than the fuse. That was because the Germans ran out of the materials to make more advanced explosives at the end of WW2.
@@allangibson2408
Do you want to try reading the manufacturers date or bet on all the contents being wetted😬😉
The battle fields of the First ww are still littered with devices that can and do go off....and as one writer has also stated even US civil war mines have exploded 😬
@@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665 The Betty’s were not particularly water proof (even when new) as a function of their design.
Modern chemical explosives are generally far more water resistant.
A WW2 Teller mine would be seriously scary (particularly as they included anti disturbance fuse provisions as standard).
@@allangibson2408 and yet the Russian War Diggers aka Yuri Gagarin people eat them for breakfast.
Amazing to see an 80 year old german flamethrower still breathing fire ! Thank you for doing all this excavation. Those Sprengminen are still dangerous though, please be careful.
That's really amazing to see & one can only imagine the overwhelming fear any soldier wud have upon realizing they were walking in a minefield!😨🇺🇸
Great video, thank you for sharing, great history lesson
Awesome ... is this Karelia perhaps ... finland front?
This is scary as hell. Digging up old WWII mines like its just a nature walk. Oh in a mine field no problem, well camp here.
Amazing at the condition of every thing that's found , scary though as some of those mines looked like they could have gone bang !!!
Those mine could have gone off. He is very lucky. The Germans galvanized everything.
There have been instances of American Civil War mortars blowing up and injuring, &killing people in recent history. So yes,these mines could have some potential, if conditions are met.
@@necosimpson6225
Legacy mines and munitions are one of the greatest threats to life and limb over huge areas of the world, not just on land either .... these tend to stay put mostly sea mines are complete wild cards when they break loose.
There is a ww2 munitions ship sunk just outside London...in the industrial zone .... Its so dangerous they have never attempted to remove the cargo or nutralize it.
Yeah, I was thinking when I was watching, is that land mines? Is he digging them up by hand... And yes he is, WTF.
Some of those mines had already been disassembled and emptied. Seems someone wanted the stuff that goes bang lol.
Cool video. It must be an awesome feeling finding those places just as they left them. What do you call that off road vehicle? That looks like a lot of fun to drive.
het is ongelofelijk wat er nog gevonden word na bijna 80 jaar ,wel gevaarlijk , mensen doe voorzichtig , ga zo door🤘
It looks as if it was a German position that was overran or left in a retreat before they could deploy the rest of the mines…Very very cool.
Amazing video. Thanks for posting!
What are the vehicle s called you drive,
We are going to be finding WWI and WWII relics while WWIII is being fought.
What strange woods you have there... So little decay in so many years...
Thank you for allowing us to tag along on your dig. Great to see history in and on the ground! Russia did most of the fighting against the Germans. Great to see the evidence of your sacrifices. Well done
more like did most of the dying.
russian command didn't care how many of their troops died unfortunately.
Exactly Darren. You just need to look at a map, see how huge Russia - back then - and Europe. Russian front absorbed well over half the german army, and war effort. Not down playing allied war effort,
but, yes, Darren, if it wasn't for the Russians...the war would have dragged on. Just so terrible that Stalin, near doubled the entire casualties of ww2 - on his own people.
@@sking3492 And the Russian winter help.
I have found such a field in the Netherlands, 70 pieces of that mines.
Love the ATV's They appear to be a relatively inexpensive model. What is the brand name a model please:)-John in Texas
if you ever find out, let me know. Maybe those are just Lada's with big wheels? lol
That flamethrower still spitting fire is incredible!
Please tell me what those machines are that you drive? Look like a open log skidder or off road truck that articulates in the middle and from side to side. Ultimate 4wd. They look bought or maybe just made well at home either way what's the name of them? Thank you from Pennsylvania. USA
those are simple version of the sherps which are seling in the US as well
Great work. Where abouts are these woods exactly?
Please tell me the name and fabricator of this coolest vehicle on water & earth... !?!
that's the second surviving 80 year old flimsy ladder I have seen tonight. amazing.
German steel and products made then was the best in the world. They was really the best u can get. Now it's China, not the best but no matter what u buy flip it over and says Made in China. If China said FU USA wed be so very fucked so very bad. Over 75 percent of all we use comes from china. Scary and sad. I was born in 80 and I remember helping dad work on things around the house and buying wear items and fixing it, not throwing it out and buying new. Miss those days. Shit lasted then. I have a blender, mixer and a microwave, all ugly colors, very heavy but works almost 40 years. Made in USA
Фугасный огнемет Abwehr Flammenwerfer 42
Одноразовый, оборонительный огнемет Abwehr Flammenwerfer 42 (A.Fm.W. 42) был разработан на базе советского фугасного огнемета ФОГ-1. Для применения, он зарывался в землю, на поверхности оставалась замаскированная труба форсунки. Устройство срабатывало либо от дистанционного управления, либо от контакта с растяжкой. Всего было выпущено 50 тысяч единиц. ТТХ огнемета: объем огнесмеси - 29 л; зона поражения - полоса длиной 30 м, шириной 15 м; максимальная продолжительность работы - 3 с.
That was very dangerous, if that mixture exploded you would have had a bad day.
Great video my frind, greatings from Brazil
Very interesting places you come across huge fan from new Zealand
You guys find some cool stuff ! TOTALLY AWSOME
You should not be so casual with those mines. They can be very unstable and it only takes one to ruin your day in a big way.
i am always blown away with how casual they handle ww2 ordinance...you're right with the whole, one unstable one handled wrong and you're done for.
I would be paranoid as hell picking one of those up I've heard too many horror stories but they act like they don't care lol
@@solidrockofjesuschristmini2423 Meanwhile in Russia lol
I'm watching this just shaking my head. They have NO IDEA the danger they're in right now. It's a PERAMETER WIRE...AND A MINE FIELD BEYOND IT...🙄🤯💀
Luckily a lot of those mines doesn't have the detonator so the explosives are open to the elements. The explosives (mainly TNT) can 'sweat' when it's old and then it's very unstable. But we got natures finest bomb disposal unit available, ants. Ants like the sweet taste of most explosives, so they litteraly eat the explosives and make a bomb 'safe'. Although the mine at 11:15 i wouldn't touch with a 5m long stick behind a concrete wall. It got an intact fuse, no holes for ants and looks like it got some weight when he lifts it, meaning there's most likely still explosives inside.
Alter. Eines der besten Videos!!!
Love the all terrain vehicles
awsome finds what do you do with them now ?
Did the flamethrowers make it to be preserved and displayed?
love war history I wish I had enough to join and become a member
I love watching these guys work the artifacts. No fear, just handling the situation. Taking care of what they can to make it safe. Great history on display...
Looks like the Germans definitely built their equipment to last!
german engineering were on of the factors that allies had trouble with, though they still tend to overengineer stuff
Do you worry about the stuff blowing up? Do you get to keep the stuff you find or what happens to it? My dad was in WWll so I find this fascinating.
Absolutely amazing. To think of the things these objects have seen.
Big work...again!! 👍
No one has been there before.... Immediately finds Bouncing Betties sitting on a rock and says "Here's some mines that someone has already dug up". 🤔
Amazing - and Beautiful. Perhaps some of the incomplete mines missing trigger mechanisms found unburied were not dug up by someone else. Perhaps those are surplus the Germans had planned to put in the minefield but did not.
Those fitted with the 3 pronged dets were risky and so easy to set off back when first put in place, never mind now, still live !!
Tolles Video.
i love your videos! =) very strange that no one has been there for such long time!
and i wonder what is this beautiful offroaders you guys drive! =) i would love to build this myself!
Can you give us coordinates where that is located? Maybe we can find out which unit was there
Great video, thanks for all the information.. Looking forward to the next one
What kind of atv machines are those !?
Those S-mines are full of jagged little chunks of metal. I can't believe he's just picking them up after they had the TRIGGER installed, that works on TRIP WIRES.
Believe me, was thinking the exact same thing. But these are Russians, and they don't like to be "Beeches" about things like this lol
how did they pressurize the flame throwers?
"No human foot has set foot" is an amazing sentence.
This is gonna be great!
Спасибо за сохранение исторических артефактов. Я надеюсь, что когда-нибудь не будут те кости, которые когда-нибудь выкопают наши дети.
How come those ball blastin Smines are so safe to handle - Now ? The 3 pronged items were so delicate when first buried, really lethal... I'm surprised you find them apparently inert today....
Primer / powder degraded with moisture
Life expectancy buried in the ground to preform as manufactured is 3 months, these mine were tested by the Allies in North Africa, as mentioned by PVD all primer/ powder black powder based is prone to moisture. The only dangerous content is the three dets under the three screws at the top, which should just drop out when unscrewed.
thanks for the video and respect for your dangerous work.
спасибо за видео и респект за ваш опасный труд.
great finds and love from the US
Very cool find
hello I have a question how do you find these awesome spots for mettal detecting I want to start doing this tho
Well he lives in russia so the best spots are in the eastern front areas so basically any woods that the germans occupied
Awesome video . Thank you for Texas
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Incredible work......and.....I love that 4 wheel tractor......Peace!
Awesome
I did not expect him to climb that ladder
Wow, just wow 🤩
Amazing Preservation
BLOODY GOOD GERMAN ENGINEERING THAT ITS LASTED SO LONG TILL NOW THANKS 😊.
Guys, love the videos. Could you at least state what country the video locations are? This could be Romania or Slovakia area....
russia
Good old German Engineering. Good finds! Good luck and all best from Germany
in my head id imagined an scp situation where with every burst of light from that frying flamethrower, you see more and more outlines of ghostly soldiers both german and russian, standing between the trees in the darkness, getting slightly closer and growning in numbers with each new puff of light.
Are they not still active 🤔
Very dangerous to dig.
Almost hundred years later that wire looks like it was installed yesterday
You’re doing good work getting the mines out of the ground and taking the flamethrowers. People who don’t know what they’re doing could get hurt.
Fantastic find guys. Do you think any of those land mines are still explosive , have you try to detonate any of them ? Thank you again. Job well done. Looking forward to new videos.
Marcio, l was about to say the same thing 😜😜!!
Love the floating truck
Now the next logical thing to do is try to set off a mine or 2 to see if there still working as well
Which part of Russia is that?
I want one of those Russian off road vehicles so bad!! It's like a argo on steroids!
Holy crap!!!not too worried about them bouncing mines eh? Not sure id be digging there
Amazing 👌
Now what I’m interesting in is that Russian ATV That thing is amazing
I want one of those mini-trucks!!
That wiremesh is in amazing condition for being there so long.
An Esbit stove?
Wow very cool
Fuck That...yes they are old..yes they are rusty. yes 99.999% they are inert. but it only takes one to fuck your day up. having said that, this man has balls of steel and bouncing betties would probably just bounce of him
This kind of stuff is really crazy!!!. Even if the main charge is not viable!, If the fuse is, it will kill!!!.
No you can definitely see how that wire would Significantly slow down incoming infantry
Use the mesh for a German hemet
How did the Soviets not find this mine field back in their day? Was this battlefield forgotten since the end of World War Two?
Woooow..qué buen hallazgo después de 80 años, genial vídeo ok.
How should we start our campfire?
US: Matches + Lighter Fluid
Russia: Matches + WW2 German Flame Thrower
La scala è davvero impressionante, ancora abbastanza solida per essere scalata
That machine you were riding was like a sherp a vehicle here in the united states that's very expensive an almost unstoppable goes on water mud anything it was cool to see that was the old time version of the sherp
Yes sherp derived from this vehicle
Sad to see the flamethrowing getting burnt after so many years of beeing preserved. You should have just shoot some flames with the pump for fun and send it to a museam after. Also it was dangerous because it could have exploded.
Looks like some kind of sticky tar nasty